The State of Embedded Software Quality and Safety 2025

31.5% of organizations produce SBOMs due to industry regulations.

96.1% of organizations are integrating open source AI models into their products.

18% of companies are affected by "Shadow AI".

21.1% of companies lack confidence in their ability to prevent AI from introducing security vulnerabilities.

70.8% of organizations now produce Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs).

39.4% of organizations produce SBOMs due to customer and partner requirements.

89.3% of organizations are already using AI-powered coding assistants.

A decisive shift towards memory-safe languages has been adopted by 80.4% of companies.